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The Community Development Department of the City of Newark is responsible for current and long range planning, economic development and code enforcement.
The Community Development Department of the City of Newark is responsible for current and long range planning, economic development and code enforcement. The Planning Division implements policies and plans that determine where and how the City will grow and how that growth will be balanced with the availability of infrastructure and services. The Economic Development Division is the City’s liaison with the business community, with responsibility to recruit and retain businesses to better the City’s economic health, the services available to City residents, and the tax base and jobs market. Economic Development and Planning work hand-in-hand to achieve City goals
The Planning and Economic Development internship is designed to offer professional learning opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in the urban planning and economic development field. Interns may be assigned to specific projects in the sub-disciplines of economic development, data analytics, planning, development review, zoning, urban design, transportation, housing, sustainability. Interns will gain exposure to the operations of an economic development department in relation to planning and will work on “real life” analyses and projects.
Examples of projects include:
Inventories of retail, office and industrial properties throughout the City. Market and data analysis, and marketing (including use of on-line data subscription resources) to assess:
Information and illustrations for marketing presentations:
